The Pelikan M800 is one of those pens that is pretty often raved about, in fact I think Peter Twydle even called it the perfect modern fountain pen, certainly for many it is a grail pen worthy of the status. Until quite recently I had only tried the smaller pens in Pelikan's line up but … Continue reading Review: The Pelikan M800 Demonstrator
So welcome to what will be a two part series on that most talked about of questions, flex nibs. These three posts will be the product of a not insignificant amount of research, as well as the experience gained over a number of years of buying and using flex nibs. The plan is to create … Continue reading Flex Nibs Part 1: Defining Flex
So my journey into fountain pens was not exactly how most people start. I started out with vintage, unusual, I know. So this has meant that as my collection is missing most of the tradition starter pens, no Safaris, Metros or TWSBIs. That was until about three weeks ago when semi on a whim I … Continue reading Review: The TWSBI Eco T
I have no data for this, but I imagine most fountain pen users have more bottles of ink than pens, and quite a lot of us can probably say they have more ink than they are ever likely to use. With that being the case it seemed remiss that I haven't yet done a … Continue reading Ink Permanence: Or is everything just going to fade away?
So I recently had a work trip to an archive, archives almost always have a no pens rule, so I decided to leave my big pen case at home and just take two pens with me. One was an easy choice, my Graf Von Faber-Castell Guilloche, it goes everywhere with me. However the number two … Continue reading Review: The New Dunn Pen
So two slightly unexpected occurrences happened last week, 1. I bought a TWSBI Eco t and 2. I needed to remove the piston from a Pelikan M800. All of this got me thinking about pen disassembly, and attitudes towards it. Fully taking apart your pen seems to be quite a popular thing at the … Continue reading Is Your Disassembly Really Necessary?
So at some point most pen people have been curious to try out the fabled 'flex nib' whatever that actually means in practice. Confronted by a bewildering array of often expensive choices many people end up settling on a Noodler's steel flex nib pen, it's cheap and it offers a good entry point for those … Continue reading Review: The Noodler’s Nib Creaper
So we've all been there, you're in a situation where it's reasonably obvious that you have a pen/pens on you and someone asks the feted question: 'Can I borrow a pen?' The palms go slightly sweaty as you try to think of a way of explaining that whilst you do in fact appear to have … Continue reading Lending Pens
So this is my first review of what you might call a vintage pen, although I'm aware that opens an unintentional can of worms as to what is and isn't a vintage pen. At any rate it's a pen that is no longer in production. Obviously reviewing a pen which may well be 50 years … Continue reading Review: The Parker 75 Sterling Cicelé
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